JPS62186353A - Multi-function personal word processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain a multi-function personal word processor capable of being miniaturized by assembling all control elements to one main body control board. CONSTITUTION:The rear side of keyboards 2, 3 of a main body case 1 is provided with the main body control board 18 and a memory card 20 being an external storage device. The main control board 18 is provided with the keyboards 2, 3, a display device 5, an image scanner 8 and a control section for a printer 9 or the like to attain one board structure. Then the main body control board 18 is provided with a microcomputer 22 controlling the entire multi-function personal word processor, a control element 23a for a speaker 23, a control element 9a for a printer 9, a ROM 24 for system program, a RAM 25 for temporary storage, a control element 26a for an I/O 26 connecting a communication MODEM or the like, control elements 2a for keyboards 2, 3, a control element 6a for a display device 6 and a control element 8a for the image scanner 8.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a multifunctional personal word processor having a function of inputting handwritten images, and particularly to a multifunctional personal word processor suitable for creating documents such as postcards.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, this type of device has only a keyboard as an input means, so it is not possible to input images such as handwritten characters and figures. Therefore, it is only possible to output fixed-form characters and fixed-form symbols stored in memory in advance in a predetermined arrangement.

For this reason, with the above-mentioned conventional technology, it is not possible for the user to freely edit handwritten characters and figures. It was impossible to print.

Therefore, a handwriting input device such as an image scanner that can input handwritten characters and figures is installed in the main body case along with a keyboard and a printer, so that handwritten images can be printed on the printer. Currently under development.

However, in addition to the control board that has control elements such as the CPU that controls the entire word processor and the control elements that control the keyboard, this product also has a control board for the printer that has control elements for the printer, and a control element for the handwriting input device. The structure is such that two boards are provided, one for the control board, and the other is for the control board, and the structure is complicated and it is difficult to achieve miniaturization.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a multifunctional personal word processor that can solve the above-mentioned problems and can be made smaller.

[Embodiment of the Invention] Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described based on FIGS. 1 to 3.

In the drawing, the main case of the multifunctional personal word processor has a keyboard 2 for inputting Roman characters and kana.
．． 3. Keyboard for inputting numbers; 3. Display device 52, such as a liquid crystal display; 8. Image scanner, which is an image input device; It is equipped with a thermal transfer type printer 9 and a paper roller 7 wrapped with memo paper.

On the front right side of the main body case 1, there is a keyboard 2.
Keyboard 3, power switch 4. Arrange in the order of speaker hole 5. Keyboard 3. The display screen of the display device 6 is vertically arranged on the left side of the power switch 4 and the speaker hole 5.

On the front left side of the main body case 1, from the front, there are paper rollers 7.
, image scanner8. A paper roller 7, an image scanner 8, and a printer 9 arranged in this order are covered by a cover 10 that is integrally provided with a base 11 of a main body case 1.

The cover 10 is bendable at hinges 12.13 made of thin parts, and is positioned by stoppers 14.1'5 provided on the base 11.

The cover 10 is fixed by engaging a protrusion 16 provided integrally with the cover 10 into a hole 17 provided in the main body case 1. The back surface of the cover 10 is flat so that it can be used as a base for memos.

On the back side of the keyboard 2.3 on the front right side of the main body case 1, a main body control board 18 and a memory card 20, which is an external storage device, are arranged. The memory card 20 is connected to the main body control board 18 by a connector 19.

Print paper 21 such as postcards is fed from the front of the main body case 1 and discharged onto the top surface of the main body case 1.

The main body control board 18 includes a keyboard 2 as shown in FIG.
, 3. Display device 5. By providing all the control sections such as the image scanner 8 and the printer 9, it is possible to use a single board. That is, the main body control board 18 includes a microcomputer 22. which controls the entire multifunctional personal word processor. A control element 23a of the speaker 23, a control element 9a of the printer 9, a ROM 24 for system programs, a RAM 25 for temporary storage. A control element 26a of a communication modem 11026, a control element 2a of the keyboards 2 and 3, a control element 6a of the display device 6, and a control element 8a of the image scanner 8 are incorporated. Microcomputer 22, various control elements 2a, 6a, 8a, 9a, 23a, 26a.

The ROM 24 and RAM 25 are integrated into a single LSI chip.

As described above, one body control board 18 includes a printer 9, an image scanner 8 which is a handwriting input device, a display device 6. All control elements such as the keyboards 2 and 3 are incorporated, and the main body control board 18 is placed on the back side of the keyboards 2 and 3, so that
Electrical wiring within the main body case 1 is simplified. Even if a handwriting input device or the like is provided for multi-functionality, only one board is required, so it does not take up much space within the main body case.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the present invention, it is possible to obtain a multifunctional personal word processor that can be made smaller by using a single board.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawings show one embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 1 is a perspective view with the cover closed, FIG. 2 is a perspective view with the cover open, and FIG. 3 is a functional block diagram. Main body case, 2, 3...Keyboard, 6...Display device, 8...
・Image scanner.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A keyboard, a display device for displaying the input contents using the keyboard, a printer capable of printing the contents displayed on the display device, and a printer capable of inputting handwritten characters and figures. In the main body case, a main body control board (18) equipped with a microcomputer (22) that controls the entire word processor is provided in the main body case, and a system Program ROM (24), R
AM (25), keyboard control element (2a), display device control element (6a), handwriting input device (8a),
A multifunctional personal word processor characterized by incorporating all various control elements such as a printer control element (9a). 2. The multifunctional personal word processor according to claim 1, wherein all the control elements built into the main body control board (18) are integrated into one LSI chip.